The Caterham may only have 250bhp, but you have to remember that it weighs about the same... as a J-cloth.

I'll tell you what, Richard. You go around our track on your Hayabusa at top speed and I'll chain smoke and we'll see who dies first.

Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you’ve got the ebola virus and you’re about to sneeze.

On the Corvette Z06 “As something to live with every day, I’d rather have bird flu.”

Why did the pharaoh go to Dairy Queen? He was thirsty

Announcing the Top Gear Awards in December 2005] “Now the best gas guzzler of the year. And the nominations are: the Range Rover Sport which achieved eight miles to the gallon; the Bugatti Veyron which achieved four miles to the gallon; and Hemel Hempstead. That actually used up 60 million gallons of fuel and didn’t move an inch.

On the Ford GT40 “Was this the greatest hypercar of them all? Well, that’s a question I’ve never really been able to answer, because the GT40 is 40 inches tall... and I'm not.”

On the Enzo Ferrari “Ferrari is so pleased with it they’ve named it after the founder of the company. They call it the Enzo. That’d be the same as Lotus calling their next car... ‘The Colin.’”

On cars at a Max Power show "Most of these cars will do 0-60 once....and then they’ll blow up."

[on his own driving test] - I didn't see it as a driving test so much as a confirmation of my excelence.

[Stretch Limos Challenge] - ... for some extraodinary reason the rules say you can't drive a 46-foot car on the public highway, so I had to do some surgery...

You can't be a true petrolhead until you've owned an Alfa Romeo

On paddle shift automatic gearboxes “The thing is, it’s a gearbox, okay? It has one job to do! One job! Pull the lever… ‘Am I a pencil? Am I a cauliflower? Am I a nuclear power station – I’m a gearbox! Oh, heavens, I’m gonna swap some cogs around!’”

On the Alfa Romeo Brera “Think of it as Angelina Jolie. You’ve heard she’s mad and eats nothing but wallpaper paste. But you would, wouldn’t you?”

Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.

That Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.

On the Mercedes CLS55 AMG “It sounds like Barry White eating wasps.”

Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.

On Segways "They’re made in America, of course, so fat Yanks can go to the fridge without expending any energy."

On the mclaren MP4-12C The first thing I would like to know is why they've named it after a fax machine.

You know what's funny? The Joke below this one.

What's worse than the holocaust? 6 million Jews.

On British Leyland: "Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been done, so badly, by so many."

How hard can it be?

Clarksonisms

Affectionately referred to as Clarksonisms, Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson's quips are the stuff of legends among car enthusiasts...

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